Living in Japan is not a sprint but a marathon. It’s common for people to charge ahead trying to experience everything on offer as soon as possible but it’s all too easy to miss things along the way. These are my musings on my experiences in Japan. After living in the Nagoya area for three years I still feel that I’ve barely scratched the surface.

Living in another country can be inconvenient in many ways and its often the ones you least expect that end up annoying you the most. I generally try not to be one of those people that look at other countries as weird or wrong. I avoid making the assumption that the way I’m used to…